Henderson State University

Now let 's say that education is 100% free, now the state has to pay over 40% more that it already does to fund public colleges. Sadly the state can only give so much and chances are it won’t be able to fill that margin. Colleges would have to provide less services to students like dorms and food, professors get paid much less, and updating textbooks every year would be nearly impossible. Our public schools are state and locally funded and they don’t get near enough money to get everything…

resolution is not only beneficial to the typical organizations, but is translatable to a wide array of organizations, including public education institutions the field of conflict resolution will expand. This workshop being available for colleges and universities alone promotes the field of conflict resolution, allowing it as an option promotes the field and its use. This is why the creation of the website was so important. It expands the potential use of the workshop and conflict resolution in…

Statement of the Issue For many Americans obtaining a college degree is the ultimate American Dream. Getting a degree generally signifies success and opens the door for better jobs, health insurance, and economic independence for future generations. The dream of college graduation is especially one that foster youth wish to obtain. For many foster youth, attending college, getting a degree, and changing ones circumstances, is the key to a better life then the one they had. Unfortunately for…

chance to aide discovery, and embrace the unknown by living, not calculating. The most prestigious universities boast of former students ' successes, flaunt the admission of merely the elite, and display inherited tradition with pride. However it is within the mind of a student, overjoyed with the opportunity to explore and obtain knowledge with unbridled enthusiasm, that the true success of the university lies. For it is a student whose motive is not the end, the destination, or the product,…

ever, the majority of the unemployed in the US had attended college (Shedlock). With more and more parents pushing their children towards college and university education, is obtaining a degree no longer a stepping stone towards employment? It seems now that a higher education won 't necessarily lead to a better life. With the increase in university educated individuals, there are consequences. The job market is flooded, there 's an increase in student debt, and participation in trades is at an…

According to Julie posselt a professor at university of Michigan says competitiveness matters to mental health. She discovered that 40,000 undergraduates in the health minds student that anxiety can be prevalent in insinuations that are more unlocked towards their policy of admissions rather than…

As the obesity epidemic continues to be the focus of many research studies some are beginning to blame colleges and universities for the steady increase in college student obesity (Nicklas, Baranowski, Cullen, and Berensosn, 2001; Huang, Harris, Lee, Nazir, Born, and Kaur, 2003; Brown, Dresen, and Eggett 2005; Nelson, Gortmaker, Subramanian, Cheung, and Wechsler, 2007; Blankenau, 2009). Many argue that neither blame nor responsibility should be placed on the institution of higher education.…

As I look back to my high school days, all I could ever think about was getting my diploma and moving on to college. Frankly, I just wanted to graduate because I was growing tired of the same old stuff in school. I didn’t really know what I was getting into, thinking that I was ready for college while being blind-sided by the amount of obstacles that I came to face. Now realizing the amount of responsibility that I have to accept, my situation of being a first-generation college student and my…

medicine in order to control them to remain calm and focus in school. Giving medication to boys whom are normally distracted causes them to be less interested in school. Men not going to college can lead into more poverty and unemployment in the United States it is not a good thing to let happen there should be more ways for boys to be able to learn in school. McArdle and Conlin agree that the imbalance in gender education is bad and that some actions need to be taken into consideration. For…

Cupping Student Debt In this cartoon, Joe Heller illustrates the feelings that every student has in relation to students loans. Heller’s purpose in this cartoon is to draw attention to the enormity and un-manageable amount of debt they acquire over the course of their college career. He uses a combination of wording, design and symbolism in order to effectively empathize with the struggle that every college student experiences, drawing the conclusion that college is too expensive, forcing…